The European Commission has announced the results of the international competition Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks as part of the Horizon Europe programme. The goal of the scheme is to promote projects aimed at providing complex training to early stage researchers without a PhD by international interdisciplinary research teams in collaboration with non-academic institutions. Four of the awarded projects will involve Jagiellonian University doctoral students as consortium partners.
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is part of the Horizon Europe programme, which allows researchers from different countries to create a cooperation network in order to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and joint development of projects. COST Actions are one of the main ways of carrying out these objectives as well as promoting international collaboration and innovative research projects. The PAAR-net COST Action is an initiative that brings together researchers and innovators interested in participatory approaches with older adults.
We now know the results of one of the most important global higher education institution rankings: QS World University Rankings by Subject. In this year’s edition, the Jagiellonian University was ranked in 23 disciplines in all five research areas. The highest number of points was awarded to Religious Studies, Philosophy, Linguistics, Modern Languages, Geography and History.
The latest procedure performed at the JU University Hospital in Kraków is a welcome piece of news for men affected by incontinence. On 10 April, a team of doctors led by Prof. Piotr Chłosta implanted an electronic hydraulic urethral sphincter into the body of a patient. It is the first procedure of its kind in Poland and only the second in Europe. It was carried out within the framework of an ongoing clinical trial.
Prof. Mateusz Borowski from the JU Faculty of Polish Studies Chair in Performative Studies has the Fulbright Slavic Award 2024–2025 grant, within the framework of which he will assume a teaching position at the University of Illinois in the US. Additionally, as many as 15 students from the Jagiellonian University will participate in a one year-long scholarship in one of four renowned American research centres in Austin, Charlottesville, Chicago and Oklahoma City thanks to the funding from the BioLAB programme.
Jagiellonian University scientists have developed the world’s first method of fast identification of bacteria and fungi on photographs from light microscopes. The new technology utilises deep neural networks and artificial intelligence with the aim of supporting medical diagnostics. It can also be applied in industry, food safety monitoring, or scientific research.
The Polish Returns is one of NAWA flagship programme, which allows talented Polish scientists working abroad to come back to Poland and continue their research at Polish academic institutions. One of the grant winners is Dr Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, who will soon leave the University of Geneva for the Jagiellonian University, where he will run a project from the field of quantum thermodynamics.
Jagiellonian University researchers from the JU Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, the Faculty of Chemistry, and the Faculty of Biophysics, Biochemistry and Biotechnology indicated that one of polymers functions as an effective inhibitor of Zika virus. Their paper was published in Polymers for Advanced Technologies, a peer reviewed research journal issued since 1990 by John Wiley & Sons publishing house.
The international TEAM (Teacher Education About Multilingualism) project, funded by an Erasmus+ grant, was co-created by members of Bilingualism Matters Kraków and Psychology of Language and Bilingualism Lab "LangUsta" from the Institute of Psychology of the Jagiellonian University.
Dr Renata Mężyk-Kopeć from the JU Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology Department of Cell Biochemistry will receive 1.3 million zlotys for a research project in the area of communication between cells in the body, to be carried out in collaboration with Prof. Tobias Langenhan from the German University of Leipzig (Rudolf Schönheimer Institut für Biochemie).
JU scientists have discovered a synthetic polymer characterised by strong antifungal properties and low toxicity. The importance of the newly developed technology is underlined by its promising physical and chemical properties and the fact there are few substances used in mycosis treatment and prevention currently available on the market.
On 26 March, the Jagiellonian University was visited by the Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Poland, Sriyanee Dhammika Kumari Semasinghe. She was received in Collegium Novum by the JU Rector Prof. Jacek Popiel and JU Vice-Rector for International Relations Prof. Dorota Malec.